If you were to go to war today, which knife would you take with you?

Today, my Spartan Harsay Difensa but I have my eye on a couple of others so next week it may be a different answer but they are very close to this and the same steel (S35VN).



And an SAK Outrider (3" locking blade):

My USMC fighting knife. And my SAK officer's model.

Probably and ASEK, Leatherman and a Swiss Army - smallest with a wood saw blade.

Todd.

Same ones I took last time.
A Randall and an Edge Soligen fixed blades and a Schrade Lb 5 folder.
Lost the Randall, still have the other 2

The K-Bar I carried in Nam.
A do it all knife. Solid as all get out.
Cut all kids of stuff including throats
Pocket a swiss army knife.

AFS

Take the same as I did the last time. Sheffield Regimental Survival knife. And of course my Benchmade Grip.

Probably my Ontario Model RAT-5 along with my newly gifted Ontario Model RAT-1 Folder. Of course a SAK should be standard issue anyways.

My butter knife. Can’t have bread without butter!

Kukuri


Buck 110

EMT shears. Probably some of the sandblasted/passivated blade ones, but I forget who made them. They do 99.9997% of what I need in the woods when doing war-like things so far, with no danger. Cuts open MRE bags, cuts bandages for those who use knives instead.

Second one? Benchmade Rescue Hook. Same reason. Too many injuries or slowness for avoiding injury when cutting cords for shelters, etc. with. knife (or, something too thick to cut well with shears), light and quick.

My 225Q Commando knife. hdbiker

Glock 81 and my Leatherman Charge. If I still had it, the Gerber MkII I had when I was in the Army.

entropy

After I bought my first Gerber knife, a Mk.I, the next one I got was a Mk.II. It had the gray Armorhide handle along with the brown leather sheath. Ended up gifting to a friend of mine. Kind of missed having one and when I found a MK.II on sale at a little knife shop in the mall I picked another one up, only now it had a black handle and sheath. The only other difference with the first one I had was that the blade serrations on the second Mk.II were not quite as pronounced as they were on the first knife.

hso

No it didn't. On John T. Sabol's website: "The Gerber Mark II Knife" I think my knife was probably a GA 6 (Gray Armorhide Type 6).

Third one up from bottom: A Mad Dog VoodooHound 71/4" in the Dundee shoulder rig pictured on my final run at a War Belt, the shoulder strap on the Dundee Rig worn as a Sam Brown to help support the load. In side the "dump pouch " includes a stainless vintage USA made Shrade multi tool which were the strongest beast of a tool I've yet found:

A Bowie configuration fixed blade. K-Bar probably.
And my EDC, an Emerson configuration.

My mukti with a Kershaw clash for scale.

It's handy as a knife, sledgehammer, pan and is in fact the best throwing knife to ever exist

Last time I played soldier I had to hump all my personal possessions, so while these large knifes are probably great, they would be a little more weight than I want to carry.

The Mk I is what my Dad used in WWII, probably still work for me.

Smallest knife that could open cans, beer bottles, and wine, yeah that works.

That little gray thing in the corkscrew, important at this point, an eyeglass screwdriver.

Folder: If my long weapon is an M4/AR15/M16, well, Leatherman sells a multi-tool that has specific tools for the weapon system. This might get the nod, as my folder.

Fixed-blade: Spartan Blades Les George V-14, a 21st-Century interpretation of a couple of WW2 daggers.

Much as I would have liked to have named a Bowie or other chopper-capable knife, a gimpy shoulder has relegated me to blades more-suited to point-driven techniques. If I am going to wield a big contact weapon with my “other” arm, I would rather it be an axe/hatchet/‘hawk. As a fan of Bowies, it is not easy for me to say this, but it is what it is. The above-mentioned dagger, at just under 7” in blade length, and slim, is the largest knife that I can use right-handed, effectively.

I'll take a knife that was built for service members.

A Cold Steel Outdoorsman as my fixed blade and a Recon 1 for my folding knife